Spoof videos on you tube? News? Well no, but I can’t resist this one You know us programmers get all excited about recursion… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ

A friend (no really) has a couple of PC’s they want to pass on but the friend is an accountant (see it is a friend & not me) and they want to make sure the disks are sanitised of any confidential data before they let them go. I had a google and came up with eraser at http://www.heidi.ie/node/6

I’m sure I’ve said before that if you make safety / security procedures too complex people will just bypass them and leave you worse off than before. Another example has just arisen from good old Tesco. To get into my account they want the 1st 3rd

I’m using quite an old Music Match Juke Box (v7.5) as my CD ripper. The newer one screws up some other apps and is just bigger & bloatier & I have registered this version (I don’t just use freeware, on occasion I will pay for stuff!).

I use my own player “what I wrote” as an MP3 player as MM tends to hog resources, displays the tag name when I want the file name and doesn’t do some of the shuffle effects I want (like play next sequential track when in shuffle mode). Also it saves play lists as text files so it’s easy to manipulate them & doesn’t create weird libraries I never use. Anyway writing your own apps is cool & a CD / MP3 player is so easy with Visual Basic why not?

As a man with more books than is good for him (or the house) I do list books I no longer want on Amazon as a seller. Not all of them as some (most) aren’t worth anything - a lot of books are listed at 1p and the seller makes a bit on the postage. By the time amazon have had their cut that’s a quite small bit.

Selling on ebay makes more as their cut is less BUT with amazon you don’t need to mess around with photos & flashy listings. Just a basic entry under the ISBN and aim to be cheaper (or more collectible) than anyone else. The real benefit of Amzon over ebay is that it doesn’t cost to list & the listing stays active for 60(?) days and after that you can re-list if you want so it is all round less work. If/When a book sells they send you an email.

Just like round here, Amazon have re-vamped their site. One of the irritating things is they no longer include the buyers address in the email they send so you have to log on to get it. I suppose this is better from a security point of view, the less information in clear text mails the better. Not sure if this is why they have done it but maybe it does make sense.

http://whsmithemagazines.presse-wl.com/Publications/Default.aspx

Will let you download magazines rather than waste all that convienient paper. There is a free trial too so you can get a FREE magazine. Well sort of, so far I have wasted an hour installing viewer software that won’t run and